Opening Our Hearts to Men Book by Susan Jeffers

Susan Jeffers

This Book “Pray and Grow Rich” is written by Catherine Ponder. Susan Jeffers (March 3, 1938 – October 27, 2012, 74 years old) was an American psychologist and author of self-help literature. Susan Jeffers was born Susan Gildenberg at Hazleton, Pennsylvania on March 3, 1938. Susan Jeffers started her academic education at Penn State University, but abandoned her studies when she married her first husband. In the years following 1960 the family moved to Manhattan, where Jeffers took degrees, followed by a doctorate in psychology, at Hunter College and at Columbia University. In 1971 Susan Jeffers became executive director of the Floating Hospital in New York. Then she taught a course about fear at the New School for Social Research Her self-help book Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway, published in 1987, sold millions of copies and was translated into more than thirty-five languages. In addition to her work as an author Jeffers also held workshops and seminars. Susan Jeffers died from cancer of unknown primary origin (CUP) on October 27, 2012 in Los Angeles, California.